Job Description

You will be given early responsibility over a breadth of key areas of management accounting, forecasting, reporting and financial control. You must be organized and reliable with a relentless attention to detail. You will be willing to work hard to tight deadlines as part of a team of accountants in a busy finance department

Key Responsibilities

• Responsibility for maintaining the company profit and cash flow forecasts.
• Responsibility for maintaining the company balance sheet and accounting ledger.
• Responsibility for financial control and reporting at a company level.
• Production of detailed monthly financial packs for the Board of Directors.
• Working closely with the project management team to ensure changes in commercial circumstances are modelled in company forecasts.
• Working with the wider finance team to deliver improvement in management information reporting.
• Profit forecast and cash flow maintenance and budgeting
• Balance sheet maintenance and financial control
• Production of monthly management accounts, management reports and board reports
• Month end reporting to parent companies.
• Various ad-hoc reporting, analysis and modelling.
• Sales and marketing cost and budget reviews
• Preparation and review of project appraisals for existing and new sites.
• Liaising with both internal and external auditors
• Management of confidential payroll information and costing

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• ACA or ACCA qualified
• Experience of property industry is desirable but not essential
• Responsible - willing to take ownership of key areas of management accounting and financial control.
• Strong communicator - confident dealing with a range of stakeholders.
• Organized, reliable, with relentless attention to detail.
• Hard working individual with ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Team player with experience supervising junior staff.
• Passionate about their work and about residential property development.
• Advanced level of proficiency with Microsoft Excel
• Competent user MS Word, MS Outlook and other MS Office applications